One of the more notable details from the shipping manifests is the existence of BGA 1074, which implies that the product being mentioned here is indeed an APU, rather than another configuration. Another interesting mention is the package size, which measures 32mm x 27mm, placing it in the mobile SoC territory and optimizing it for OEM integration. Another reason the manifests here indicate an entirely new lineup is the 0.8 mm pitch and the mention of AMD’s new FF5 socket, which replaces the FF3 socket, commonly found in Valve’s Steam Deck.
Rumors about AMD’s Soundwave APUs emerged a few months ago, around the same time NVIDIA was reported to be developing an AI PC chip based on the ARM architecture….
NVDA’s current Grace CPU is a 72 high performance ARM neoverse V2 cores and uses LPDDR5X memory with ECC supporting up to 480 GB with %!@ GB/s bandwidty. The Blackwell GPU is built on TSMC 4nm process with multi chip module design combining 2 large dies and has 192 GB of HBM3e memory (who makes this HBM). Got this off of AI…doc
The answer I’m finding is yes it’s an AI oriented PC/data center chip based on the Arm architecture. It supports tight coupling with GPUs for accelerated computing and uses advanced memory subsystems like LPDDR5X. AMD apparently does not have a cpu that directly competes with these ARM cpu’s interestingly…doc